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lobstr.io pricing and alternatives: news API

lobstr.io's sitellms.txtBest news API in 2026

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 354 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.Scrappa, SerpBase and treg are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of lobstr.io's 9 plans
Call: POST /v1/runs lobstr.io's only call for this API
API: News API one of lobstr.io's 27 APIs

About this item

  • Live. lobstr.io searches the news when you call the API.
  • 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits a month, enough for 1 call.
  • One call. You call POST /v1/runs with the inputs in Product details. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done. Or the provider sends the answer to your webhook.
  • Who can get it: professionals, not consumers. Keep data: no limit, results stay on lobstr.io 7 days on Free, 28 days on paid plans. Use data: with conditions.

lobstr.io: news API alternatives

The table starts with lobstr.io's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to lobstr.io's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

lobstr.io, $4,800 yearlyScraperAPI, $49 monthly, Hobby, POST /structured/google/newsSerpWow, $155 monthly, Starter, GET /search, Google NewsTavily, pay as you go, POST /search, Search, advanced, newsScale SERP, $29 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$40.00$12.25$15.50$16.00$29.00
Completeness67%67%67%33%67%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlypay as you gomonthly
Pay$4,800$49$155monthly$29
Enough for10,000 calls a month4,000 calls a month10,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for1,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itprofessionals, not consumersanyoneanyoneanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter the Terms, or authorized to bind the companyanyone

Every news API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. api.lobstr.io/v1/plans
  2. docs.lobstr.io/docs/concepts
  3. docs.lobstr.io/docs/configure-webhook-delivery
  4. docs.lobstr.io/docs/pricing
  5. docs.lobstr.io/docs/rate-limiting
  6. docs.lobstr.io/docs/start-run
  7. docs.lobstr.io/examples/google-news-search-export/add-tasks.md
  8. docs.lobstr.io/examples/google-news-search-export/credit-cost.md
  9. docs.lobstr.io/examples/google-news-search-export/get-results.md
  10. docs.lobstr.io/examples/google-news-search-export/update-settings.md
  11. help.lobstr.io/billing/reset-billing-cycle
  12. help.lobstr.io/core-concepts/credits
  13. lobstr.io/legal/terms-of-use
  14. lobstr.io/pricing
  15. lobstr.io/store/google-news-search-export
  16. lobstr.io/store/linkedin-profile-scraper

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Source
  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Snippet
  • Image
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search30
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 72 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGive it a keyword, get the news: title, source, published at, short description, URL and 1 more fields, in a spreadsheet, in your tools, through the API or from your AI agent.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit, results stay on lobstr.io 7 days on Free, 28 days on paid plans
Use dataThe User hereby asserts and affirms that the utilization of the Platform is solely for professional activities, thereby exempting the User from being classified as a "consumer" under the governing law. [...] Squiders are obligated to: (i) Procure requisite permissions for accessing websites through Squids, (ii) Abstain from extracting substantial portions of databases, whether in terms of quality or quantity, (iii) Refrain from unauthorized access to confidential or proprietary information, (iv) Observe all third-party rights, including but not limited to copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights, (v) Comply with all pertinent laws, statutes, ordinances, and regulations, inclusive of those related to the protection of personal data. [...] a global, non-exclusive, non-transferrable, and non-sublicensable right to employ the Platform for the duration of the User's active account on said Platform [...] Absent express written consent from LOBSTR, the User shall abstain—and shall prohibit any third parties acting on their behalf, including but not limited to employees, agents, affiliates, and subcontractors—from: (i) Decompiling, disassembling, or reverse-engineering the Platform, or attempting to discern its source code, foundational ideas, algorithms, file formats, or interoperability features [...], (ii) Independently or with third-party assistance, rectifying any Platform defects to render it compliant with its intended use [...], (iii) Removing or altering any notifications, labels, or references pertaining to the intellectual property rights of LOBSTR or any third parties, (iv) Engaging in the transfer, utilization, or exportation of the Platform in a manner that contravenes applicable laws, (v) Integrating, associating, or amalgamating the Platform with any other software or documents, or generating derivative works based in whole or part on the Platform, (vi) Conducting any activities with the Platform other than those explicitly sanctioned by these Terms and Conditions
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits a month
Enough for1 call a month
Expirescredits refresh each month and don't roll over at renewal, only a paid billing-cycle reset carries unused credits over, for 30 days
Rate limit
Per second2
Concurrent1
Speed
Answerby polling or webhook
Median10.38 s
The call
You sendsquid (a Google News Search Export squid, crawler 06faf01896336c01ffb5e96d13dd406c, holding keywords as its tasks (keyword)). Optional: language, time_range, max_results, max_unique_results_per_run, topic_url, fetch_since, fetch_since_timezone
MethodPOST
Path/v1/runs
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itprofessionals, not consumers
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

result title, result snippet, published at, result URL, publisher name, image URL, total results, page number, pagination

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